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Does Green Tea really help you to lose weight or is it another urban myth? In Chinese Medicine Green Tea is said to help the body clear dampness and thus is also regarded as aiding weight loss. Until recently there was no scientific evidence to back up these claims. Now however scientific research is able to explain how Green Tea can help weight loss. Scientists have discovered that certain compounds found in green tea, such as caffeine and catechines, actually stimulate your metabolism to burn fat. This process is known as thermogenesis, and this means that when you drink a cup of green tea your body will start to burn up calories. In fact, green tea will stimulate your body to burn up visceral fat, which is the fat that sits around your vital organs, such as around your liver and spleen in your abdomen, and it’s this kind of fat that really impacts on your health. In a recent study, scientists fed mice a diet containing green tea powder for 16 weeks. Visceral fat decreased by over 75% in those receiving green tea compared to a control group. So we can see how green tea is good for weight loss by boosting the body’s metabolism and targeting fat that is dangerous to our health. But there’s another reason why green tea aids weight loss and that’s to do with the fact that it contains large amounts of antioxidants. These are chemicals which help your body remove poisons and toxins from your system. But studies have also shown that these antioxidants also prevent your body from storing fat by inhibiting the enzyme which does this. Hence if you drink a cup of green tea before a meal your body will be naturally prevented from storing fat from that meal. Scientists have also shown that green tea can significantly lower cholesterol. Researchers in Tokyo ran a study where overweight men drank one bottle of green tea a day. After just 12 weeks they all had significantly lower body weight, BMI, cholesterol and waist circumference, compared to another group of men who drank a different type of tea. In conclusion we can say that it seems that if drunk regularly then green tea can certainly help you lose weight and that the processes and mechanisms by which this happens are now being understood by scientists too. To see our range of green teas follow these links: Chinese Green Tea or Detox Weight Loss Tea
For more information on how Hypnopuncture can help with Weight Loss or to book a session please call Paul on 0752864923 or contact Hypnopuncture
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